Which Alien did you see FIRST

"Alien"...original run at the Egyptian Edit - I'm a bit of a snob in a way...I see "Alien" as its own film....the sequels were fun, yes, but not really part of the original...maybe heresy to some people, but that's my view

When I was 8 years old I first saw Aliens at my gran's house, because old people are awesome she let me watch it alone in the spare bedroom. I was fascinated but not at all scared. My sisters friend overheard me going on about it and revealed to me that there was in fact another film called Alien which came before. So being the responsible babysitter she was sat me down at night to watch Alien. I remember seeing the words slowly materialise on the screen and thinking this seems a little different to the film I saw, gulp. Needless to say I was awake every ten seconds and constantly out of the bed telling the baby sitter that I was having nightmares. I remember reasoning with myself that after each actor was killed the man in the Alien suit would pop out and tell them they could go home now lol. Alien has remained my favourite film ever since even though I actually saw Aliens first. Alien to me well never be matched for the intensity and atmospheric wonder it produced. If Prometheus is a quarter as good SRS will have done well.

Alien - stood in,ine about an hour just to get in the theater. I was so high when I sat down. Movie was amazing and after the chestburster scene you could hear a pin drop. My heart was racing the whole movie. Still fel the smae way when I watch it today.

I watched Alien on VHS when I was 9 I think in 83 or so. Scared the crap out of me. Been in love with the franchise ever since. I remember begging my mom to take me and my friend to see Aliens in the Theater and I kept begging to go again after that.

Saw the original movie in the theaters, back in 1979 at the ripe old age of TEN! (Yeah, my folks were like that. They also took me to see Jaws in the theaters...cause, you know, that's what you [i]do[/i] with a six-year old.) And see, here's the thing - it's impossible to convey to people who watch it nowadays what it was like to see [i]Alien[/i][b][/b] for the first time, because nobody, [i]nobody[/i] had ever [i]seen[/i] something like that before in a movie. It was so unique, so unearthly, so [i]disturbing[/i] - even though the plot was basically just a monster-on-the-loose tale in space - that it shocked the hell out of everyone. And it gave me nightmares for several days after.

Aliens was the first one I saw, must have been less then ten. Then I saw ALien3 and then Aien. Alien is by far my favourite film though

i believe i saw them all in sequence, at least Alien and Aliens. my dad introduced them to me, and he would have done it right. i particularly remember the sequence of when Kane regained consciousness, obviously followed by the chest buster. i was young enough that it was one of the only scenes that really stuck with me, and when i watched the movie again years later it was like watching it again for the first time. for a long time i preferred aliens for the fact that it was a more "fun" movie. but now i like Alien for the same reason I like Jaws...for the purity of the story. i always imagine other writers/directors seeing movies like that and saying "damn", wish i'd thought of that, cause thats perfect.

Every son has a father-son movie. Alien was mine. I remember it first coming on a local cable channel called PRISM about 2 years after release. I was 10, and my dad really wanted me to watch it with him. I was scared as crap, and he told me the first 45 minutes was pure sci-fi, nothing scary. My father told me about hypersleep, deep space travel, etc. I refused to watch the chest burster scene and left the room. Then watched the rest of it with him. My dad is 71 now, and living in the same house I grew up in. Shortly after release, I will be taking him to go see Prometheus for another father-son movie. So Alien holds a special place as my favorite movie ever for obvious reasons.

i saw aliens first. i fell in love with vasquez right away and wanted to be her. ripley is awesome and all Obviously but i wanted vasquezes build even tho i want even at puberty yet. i was later obsessed with the "gi jane" build but i had issues with that i dont care to discuss with strangers. anyway, i am STILL comparing my arm muscles to the vasquez character because its a personal goal. i know my triceps are way bigger but my biceps [u]fail[/u] hardcore. what was the question? lol oh yeah.... i saw aliens first because my parents constantly told me alien was the most boring movie ever but alien was way better in my mind. it took me a couple years before i used my allowance to buy me a fancy shmancy VHS tape of alien that i watched itself over 80 times. i wont watch the VHS again because i have had so many movies eaten by VCRs that i dont want to risk it. yeah yeah i know i can watch it online or watch my DVD's but that tape is special and old damn it! its the first time i got to see alien so how can that tape not be special? if obsessions with objects is wrong i dont want to be right.

full movie? or first glimpse? because the first thing i ever saw alien was the power loader fight in aliens, then i saw alien from about right after they land to the end, then i saw all of aliens, then all of alien 3, then i went back and saw all of alien, then i saw resurrection. sadly because i am probably one of the youngest members on here i will never get to share any of those moments seeing the alien movies on the big screen.... until after Prometheus comes out that is :D

Got the actual prototype of the very first Kenner Alien doll ever made approximately 3 months before the release of the first film at a toy show in NYC From my father who's company had just bought the rights to the toys for the film. My fathers exact words were.."This thing is going to be huge" as he pulled out it's retractable Jaw. To this day I do not think even he realizes just HOW FAR prophetic those words were..needless to say I saw that film for the first time at it's premier here in a Lowe's Theater with some crazy "jacked up" sound and an absolutely Huge screen in downtown Montreal, 3 months later.

first saw ALIEN in its first TV broadcast, it aired (edited) on ABC (channel 7) here in Lost Angeles, i happened upon it by chance, i started it at the point where Ripley tells Ash that "it looks like a warning", i was completely HOOKED that was in 1984, cut to early 1986, i told a friend of mine about this cool movie i saw on TV a while ago, he told me it was ALIEN, we then rented it on VHS that very night, and since then, i can say that i have seen ALIEN well over 200+ times it had a profound impact not only on my taste in sci-fi, but an equally profound impact on my artistic aesthetic Star Wars got me interested in sci-fi concept art, ALIEN pointed me in the right direction in regards to the devil being in the details (so to speak) and Ron Cobb / H.R. Giger Jean "Moebious" Giraud / John Mollo / Chris Foss' works ALL captured and held my attention, even today @Forever War: YOU are one LUCKY guy...! i was only able to catch " Aliens " (yaaaaawn) at the Egyptian Theater first run. what a waste of my time / energy / money i am with you 100% in your opinion of ALIEN as a standalone film. your words are hardly heresy to me they are more the the Gospel truth! Amen!

Forever War & Shardy: I guess we're part of the special club that got to see 'Alien' when it first came out. And there IS a specialness to seeing the original of the 'Alien' "franchise" (hate that word) for when it is actually new and (akin to seeing Star Wars on first release) you have NEVER seen anything like it before. No prequel/sequels to spoil any surprises. The sheer originality and craftsmanship just blows you away because nothing in the dippy 70's had [i]anything[/i] close to its raw power & terror. Because of this, call me a snob as well - 'Alien' for me will always be the ultimate horror film that makes all others pale in comparison. Seeing the film for the first time as a grade-schooler made the impact all the more deep certainly... Seeing 'Aliens' as a teen allowed me to appreciate it as one of the best action thrillers out there.

Alien, in original theatrical release. My buddy and I were 21 at the time, and real Sci-Fi nerds, but for some reason we hadn't seen Alien, which had been out for a few weeks. I remember we were sitting in [u]the[/u] Pizza Hut, wondering what we were gonna do on this boring evening in our little, boring Texas town(Corpus Christi), when we remembered "that Alien movie". We saw it that night and were hooked!!